"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that."
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"The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it."
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"The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed."
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"Young children are such nasty little beasts!"
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"That’s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged."
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"It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally."
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"In the make-up trailer there are always lots of trashy magazines and it's always quite pleasant to go through them in the morning. That's when I realized, "Oh my, it's quite nasty". There was a lot of pressure on Daniel Craig. He was quite nervous and paranoid, especially in the Bahamas on the beach, lots of paparazzi. Even on me in France - nasty things! Like I was going to get fired, I was so bad."
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"The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour."
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"It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now"
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"For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence."
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"We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns."
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"If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter."
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"When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed."
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"Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors."
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"For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish."
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"Things have gotten so nasty in Washington."
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"A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry."
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"Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black."
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"They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!"
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